After a few years of not returning, the spring breeze of Lu is still so warm and familiar, on the bank of the water, Zhao Wuxian looked up at the Hongyan who returned to the north, and secretly said in his heart, I don't know if my destination is Ye or Lu? Perhaps, the place of peace of mind is his hometown, or it is in Ji Huan's small courtyard that his heart is the most stable. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, Lu also has his family, his concubines and eldest son.

Zhao Wuxian turned his face and looked at his son who was in the same car with him, he was a little taller, Zhao Wuxian came to Lu with Shu, he couldn't see his relatives a few times a year, and Zhao Caoke, who lacked peers to accompany and play, was very happy, and took his sister to visit Qufu before and after running, and also used the private library to buy her all kinds of snacks.

It's a pity that the children's total horn fun didn't last for a few days, and Zhao Cao soon had no time to play, he was asked to observe the meeting between Zhao Wuxian and his retainers, looking at Zhao Cao's absent-minded appearance, Zhao Wuxian was helpless and funny, so he said to him:

"Our sage Shi Kuang of the Jin Kingdom once said such a sentence, the Son of Heaven has a prince, the princes have a king, the secretary has a side room, and the doctor has a second sect...... to complement each other also. This sentence exhausts the relationship between the monarch and the Qing family, have you ever heard it? ”

Zhao Cao, who was only nine years old, said nervously: "Master (Zhang Mengtan) once said that when you treat the monarch, you will reward him if he is good, and if he is good, he will be relieved, and if he is lost, he will be reformed...... What he learned was no longer simple poems and books, but began to involve more.

"At the beginning of the state, it was true, the princes who were sealed to unfamiliar regions needed to have Zuo Er, they were either relatives or cronies, and over time they were deeply rooted, and in high positions, they became the princes' secretaries. They were the vanguard of the army when the princes were actively exploring the outside world, and they were the rock to defend the territory when the princes were invaded by foreign enemies. ”

Hearing Zhao Wuxian say this, perhaps thinking that he was also a noble Qing family, Zhao Cao puffed up his chest in the car.

Unexpectedly, my father's voice changed: "I tell you this to let you think as a lord, instead of continuing to treat yourself as an ordinary clan." ”

Looking at his son's unknown appearance, Zhao Wuxian sighed, isn't it too early to talk to him about this now?

But as a father, who doesn't want to pass on all the life experiences and historical lessons he knows to his children? What Zhao Wuxian wanted to tell him was that in the declining Ji Shi of the princes, these Qing clans, who were once the pillars of the state, had turned into the source of the country's troubles!

In the Spring and Autumn Period when the princes were numerous, each state had a small social ecosystem, and what happened in these courts was different, but they were all inseparable from a theme, that is, the monarchy and the emperor loved and killed each other, and the other was eliminated......

In the Jin Kingdom, after the Jin Xiangong killed all the princes and expelled the princes, the princes of the Jin Kingdom seemed to be cursed, but the Di clan, the Yang tongue clan, and the Qi clan died out one after another in the previous infighting. Only the Han family remained, as well as Fan, Zhongxing, Zhi, Zhao, and Wei, who were foreign powerhouses, and the military and government were integrated to maintain a fragile balance. They were divided into several factions and poured into each other, and in the end the six secretaries became the three secretaries, and the future **** bureaucratic regime was hatched within the feudal state.

In the Lu State, the political pattern of Sanhuan's division of the office has been stable for a long time, the monarch has no way to resist, and the people are also accustomed to it, knowing the Ji family but not the monarch, but in the end, Sanhuan gave way to the courtiers to hold the country's orders because of his own decline, and he was smiling and generous.

In Weiguo, it is different, the Qing clan and the monarchy have maintained a balance for a long time, and the Ning, Sun and other Qing cannot completely empty the monarch, and the monarch cannot eliminate the Qing clan. Therefore, sometimes the Qing people rely on the people to expel the monarch, and sometimes the monarch uses the contradictions of the Qing clan to destroy one or two families, but they are mostly peaceful.

Of course, the end of the above three countries is strikingly similar, after Zhao Wuxian appeared, the balance came to an end, and finally there was today's situation.

In the neighboring country of Lu, which smells of Lu chickens and dogs, a different pattern has evolved.

The ancestor of the state of Yi was the Cao clan of the eight tribes of Zhurong, who migrated from the Central Plains to the east during the Yin Shang period, and established a vast territory of the Fang country, and the customs were gradually razed. When the fifth generation of monarchs Cao Xia, the Zhou people destroyed the Shang, and the State of Yi was unfortunately involved in the Wu Geng Rebellion, and was unfortunately defeated by the Duke of Zhou, so he lost his independent status and became a vassal of Lu.

It wasn't until the twelfth monarch Cao Keshi that he helped Duke Huan of Qi to promote hegemony and actively liaise in various countries, so he got the title of viscount because of his merits, and the state of Yi was finally ranked among the princes. At that time, with the support of the State of Qi, the State of Yi had a vast territory and was once prosperous. Although the overall strength is weaker than Lu, often invaded by Lu, but there is also a battle power, in front of Zhao's Zhuan Lu, the strength of Lu is 900 times, but the whole people are soldiers, and they can also make up 600 chariots, so they are small but not weak, and they have made the Lu people deflated many times, and once defeated Lu Xuangong, hanging his armor on the city gate.

It's a pity that the country of Yi is also constantly divided, there were originally four counties, after the division of Xiao Yi and the two small states with the same surname, plus the land occupied by the Lu State, now there are only two counties left, with a population of more than 100,000.

Not only that, because the contradictions between the monarchs and ministers of the State of Yi were very violent, the doctors of the State of Yi continued to flee, not only fleeing by themselves, but also dragging their families and mouths, and taking the entire city into the Lu State. As early as when he was mourning the Duke of Lu, the doctor of the State of Lu had defected to the State of Lu, and gave the lacquer and the mound of the State of Lu to Lu as a gift. After a year, the doctor betrayed me again. During the reign of Duke Yizhuang, there were two successive incidents of the Qing doctor's dedication to the city of Benlu.

The Qing clan fled one after another, this is the characteristic of the country, and now it is the eighteenth generation of the monarch Cao Yi is in power, he is absurd, and the relationship between the doctor is very tense, so when Zhao Wuxian just quelled the rebellion and changed the country from a servant state to a puppet state, there was another doctor of the secretary of the country......

Not only did he defect, but the doctor also asked Zhao to kill him!

Lu Hou has long been out of business, Lu Guo's current nominal Zhengqing is Zhao Cao, although he is still young, but when this kind of thing happens, Zhao Wuxian will also ask him to see if this son has the ability to deal with emergencies.

"The state of Lu is a vassal of the state of Lu, and the state of Lu has the obligation to manage this matter......"

But how to manage it, Zhao Cao couldn't say why, and Zhao Wuxian was not difficult for him, and continued to discuss with Zhang Mengtan and others, and only let Zhao Cao listen. There are still ten years before this kid really comes to the fore to deal with government affairs, so before that, let's listen and watch more.

Interestingly, this time, the opinions of the Ludi scholars were surprisingly unanimous, and that was to fight!

The grievances between the Lu State and the Lu State have been a long time, and the Lu army often plays the role of a fish belly in the Central Plains princes, but its national strength is stronger than that of the Lu and Ju, and it is the head of the Hou State adhering to the Zhou rites, and the international status is higher. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Jun Yi went to Lu many times to form an alliance to meet with him, hoping to get better with Lu. However, these "Dongyi" were precisely the main direction of the Lu people's territorial expansion, so they often used the excuse of "cutting Yi" to increase their troops. In the past 200 years, the Lu State has invaded the State of Yi more than a dozen times, and has seized a large amount of land and population of the State of Yi.

This situation made Lu Shi have the same attitude towards the country of Lu, that is, he was eager to annex it, and Zai Yu directly shouted: "Let the country of Lu become two counties of the country of Lu!" ”

For Mr. Zhao, construction has already begun on the canal "Heshui" that Zigong proposed to excavate, and the ditch is slowly heading towards Surabaya and is expected to be completed in five years, and its terminus is right in Tangyi, near the state of Yi. As a result, the status of the state of Yi became very important, and if it coincided with the change of the state of Yi when the Zhao clan fought with Qi and Wu, resulting in the interruption of the transportation of Heshui, it would cause great trouble to the future plans of the Zhao family.

At present, the monarch and the ministers are hostile to each other, and the dark politics has led to the intensification of contradictions, and the centrifugal tendency of the people towards the country has become stronger and stronger. In the previous battle with the Lu State, 33 officials of the State of Yi were killed in battle, but none of the people who participated in the war died for the country, and the Office of the State of Yi was abandoned by the people of the State, and the time had come to annex the State of Lu. And it is not as good as the Wei Guo, which is surnamed Ji, and the country of Yi, which is commonly used in China, can sacrifice the banner of "respecting the king and holding the country", although in fact there is no difference in Lulu culture.

So Zhao Wuxian quickly made a decision: to respond to the request of the Secretary of State and the doctor, and crusade against the State of Yi!

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The military situation is like fire, in late January, the country changed, in early February, Zhao Wuxian arrived in Qufu, for war planning, at the end of February, the Lu people who had just finished spring ploughing were conscripted into the army, I heard that there was a war, and the Lu people who thought that there was little land at home were suddenly ecstatic, and they heard that they were going to fight the weak and small country, they were even more happy, this is simply a military merit given for nothing.

So the wife sent her husband, and the daughter sent her father, and when they parted, they all instructed that if they did not make meritorious service, they would not come back.

Zhang Mengtan has also drawn up a plan: "Although the country of Yi claims to be 600 times, in fact, it can dispatch no more than 10,000 troops, but we can put in the strength of two armies. Song and Xue Teng, totaling 5,000 men, launched an attack from Teng; Qufu Zhao Guangde's 5,000 men attacked from Zeshan; 5,000 troops from Donglu Ranqiu attacked from Tobu Castle; The 10,000 men of Xilu were personally commanded by the Qing Shi and attacked from Kang's father......"

Zhao Wuxian nodded: "Like the pressure of a boulder, the gap in Lu Yi's national strength is huge, and there is a doctor to lead the way, this battle must be resolved quickly, and the country of Lu must be solved within half a month!" So that Qi and Wu didn't have time to react. ”

Cao Yi sent envoys to beg for mercy several times, but Zhao Wuxian ignored them. Nine years ago, Sihui League, under the persuasion of Zigong, the State of Yi obeyed the two countries of Lu and Song, and existed as vassals of the State of Lu, but they still had a lot of autonomy, and as far as Zhao Wuxian knew, during the Great War of Zhao and Qi, the monarch of the State of Yi, Cao Yi, was a little moved and wanted to help the State of Qi and get rid of the control of the State of Lu.

Let such a "six hundred times" state lie between the Lu State and the Song State, threatening his henchmen day and night, how can it not make people feel at ease.

By early March, Zhao's army had been assembled around the country.

However, just when Zhao Wuxian's Chinese army camp was just set up in Kang's father, Zhan Tai, the new county commander of Ren County, came to report that he had caught a suspicious person in the county...... (To be continued.) )